Read the full report, Headwinds: The Federal Government's Wind Energy Pause and Its Costs to Minnesota → northstarpolicy.org/headwinds

The numbers at stake in Minnesota: - 1,200 direct construction jobs (4,400 including indirect/induced employment) - $120 million in wages and benefits - $168 million in local economic activity - $28 million in tax revenue

These four projects alone would generate 1,119 megawatts of electricity, enough to power more than 335,000 Minnesota homes. And Minnesota utilities have plans for at least 4,800 additional megawatts by 2030, all of which now faces uncertainty.

Since the Pentagon stopped processing routine national security reviews, four Minnesota wind projects have been stalled which the American Clean Power Association is calling a "de facto moratorium" on new onshore wind construction nationwide.

Trump’s attacks on clean energy are holding back our economy. Add it to the pile of damage his administration and their enablers in Congress are giving us.

ICE murdered my neighbors and menaced my kid's school and beat us and kidnapped us and it's still happening and I can't wait until they all see justice for the crimes they've committed.

Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Easy to oversimplify the imperfect comparison. But I believe that in the first half of this year, the majority of our neighbors did the memory of the 1st Minnesota proud. They didn’t cower or hide, they put themselves in the teeth of the assault, and broke it.

Commentary: Higher hospital prices are responsible for inflated premiums and smaller paychecks. Hospital prices have grown faster than virtually any other sector in the economy and are the biggest driver of insurance premiums. minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/02/h...

Wasn't planning on sobbing today but here we are.

Read the full report: northstarpolicy.org/health-care-...

And it's about to get worse. MNsure enrollees face a 54% average premium jump in 2026 due to federal cuts. For a rural couple in their 60s, premiums could go from 9% of their income to roughly one-third.

Health care prices in Minnesota rose 20% from 2019 to 2023, even as utilization declined 3.5%. People are paying more for roughly the same amount of care.

Over the last 11 years, employee contributions toward health insurance premiums in Minnesota have grown 67% while median wages grew just 42%. Health insurance is eating a bigger and bigger share of workers' paychecks.

New from North Star Policy Action: health care costs are rising for working Minnesotans and wages aren't keeping up. Our new report breaks down what's driving the increase.

Minnesota Republicans suggested *internal* and external genital inspections for 6 year olds, so states controlled by Republicans will probably pursue that. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/202...

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez shot and killed Alex Pretti.

Naz was finally going to get his opportunity. Dammit.

Today we’re launching the Minnesota Affordability Tracker — a new county-by-county dashboard showing how wages and costs have changed across Minnesota from 2014 to today. Explore the data: northstarpolicy.org/affordability/ Read the full report: northstarpolicy.org/affordability-2026/

Our analysis finds costs grew faster than wages in 2025, leaving the median MN household w/ $1,410 less purchasing power. Key drivers: - Health care costs surged 25.7% - Gas prices have risen 48% since the start of the Iran War - 8 in 10 counties saw costs rise faster than their historical averages

🚨 New report Trump’s economic policies drove a historic spike in the cost of living for MN families in 2025 Minnesotans paid $4.6 BILLION more for basic necessities than they would have if costs had followed historical trends, as costs rose 6.1% across counties. northstarpolicy.org/affordabilit...

Minnesota’s labor movement is responding to the federal indictments, as a new report from @hrw.org says Operation Metro Surge caused a human rights crisis. workdaymagazine.org/well-continu...

I'm pretty pumped about our new dashboard showing how costs have increased compared to wages in every county in Minnesota. Come check it out. NOTABLE: these changes are just '24-'25, so they don't include gas price hikes from Trump's failed Iran War. So we included a separate tab for those.

I'm pretty pumped about our new dashboard showing how costs have increased compared to wages in every county in Minnesota. Come check it out. NOTABLE: these changes are just '24-'25, so they don't include gas price hikes from Trump's failed Iran War. So we included a separate tab for those.

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Three Minnesotans who were shot. Two died. Many many many more were beaten and detained. Where are the charges?

As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.

Yeah we fucking do.

I don’t think you can report on anything the Feds announce without first noting that they have lied repeatedly across jurisdictions and circumstance and shouldn’t be trusted until proven otherwise tbh

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered. Have their murderers been charged yet?

Extending this back over the last 20 years, the fastest declines in real average hourly wage annualized change over 3 months: -5.6% into July 2008 -5.5% into June 2022 -5.4% into May 2026 Omits COVID period Mar 2020 - June 2021 when compositional shifts distorted average hourly earnings changes.

It me & @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social

Bari Weiss tried to get “60 Minutes” to make Minneapolis protestors look more violent, AFTER the Feds killed two of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m... (Gift link)

How does recent growth compare to recent years? Economy added 0.5 million jobs over 12 months to May 2026.

Looking at change rates in wages versus consumer prices 3-month annualized, in the most recent data... Wages (red) up at a 2.8% rate and prices up at 7.3% rate (blue). So real hourly wages falling at abt 4.5% annualized rate. If continues, average hour'll buy 4.5% less than a year before

Tax credits are the worst way to build affordable housing. It builds waste and exploitation directly into the system because it relies on the profit motive.

This industry employs nearly 1 in 11 Minnesota workers and relies heavily on immigrant workers. While the surge has subsided, the damage hasn’t. Minnesota’s hospitality sector remains behind comparable states through March 2026. Read the full report: northstarpolicy.org/leisure-and-...

In the first three months of 2026, Operation Metro Surge’s targeted anti-immigrant enforcement cost Minnesota’s leisure and hospitality sector: • 4,600 jobs • 3.8 million working hours • $71 million in lost wages

New report from North Star Policy Action and the W.E. Upjohn Institute: Operation Metro Surge had devastating impacts on Minnesota’s Leisure and hospitality industry.

It’s a fun thought exercise to picture a US SENATOR who only has an opinion on things that he has personally witnessed.

Lightning Markwayne. Is that anything? Kachow.

Consumer confidence at an ALL TIME low, but Trump is being fluffed by the Saudis so it's all good

We identified 273 individuals with valid work permits who were arrested during Operation Metro Surge. That number is almost certainly an undercount.

It's shit like this that is just textbook fascism. In group/out group notions of justice. The people of Minnesota haven't seen any justice for the crimes you directed against us, Stephen. But we will.

lol @maxnesterak.bsky.social making friends.

Paging our benevolent corporate overlords: this will hurt us a hell of a lot more than any worker protection that you complain about.

AI worker protections passed by Congress: AI rules won by unions: ❌ forced AI use to take someone's job (IATSE) ❌ No body scans w/o consent, pay (SAAG-AFTRA) ❌ No forced AI slop rewrites (WGA) ❌ No AI firings (CWA) ✅ 6mo health/pension if displaced (CU) ✅ Mandatory bargaining pre-AI rollout (HTC)